Although Methyr-Tydfill was setup late in 816 A.S. to begin Beryllium extraction from the nearby Planet Studland, the settling of the Torfaen Asteroid Field in the system gave the station a new role. Harvesting various Terraforming Gases locked in the icy asteroids proved less expensive to initiate, while offering a bigger profit margin, despite Gaian, Corsair and Molly raids against the miners and station. BMM sold the station to Planetform, and used the funds from that sale to establish a less expensive Beryllium mining operation in the Cambridge system instead.